Albiston
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Albiston is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 275 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire and Lancs. (i) variant of Albinson , altered (with intrusive t) as if derived from a place-name. Compare Alliston .
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
275 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire and Lancs. (i) variant of Albinson , altered (with intrusive t) as if derived from a place-name. Compare Alliston . (ii) possibly a variant of Osbaldeston , from Osbaldeston (Lancs), which has a local pronunciation [ˈɔːbɪstn].
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Albiston is found
(measured from records)Albiston counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 275 | 1 in 1.2M | 288 | Albiston | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Albiston | 8 |
275 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Arthur Albistonb. 1957GBScottish footballer (born 1957)
- Wendy Albistonb. 1969GBWelsh actress
- Mark Albistonb. 1972NZNew Zealand film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Albiston mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire and Lancs. (i) variant of Albinson , altered (with intrusive t) as if derived from a place-name. Compare Alliston . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Albiston?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 275 people named Albiston, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled albiston. After it come Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Albiston most common?
- Albiston is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Albiston?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Albiston in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albistonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Albiston” — ranked 71042nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.